YAHOO


Meaning of YAHOO in English

ˈyäˌhü, yäˈhü, ˈyāˌhü, yəˈhü noun

( -s )

Usage: often capitalized

Etymology: from Yahoo, one of an imaginary race of brutes having the form of men in Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift died 1745 British satirist

: an uncouth or rowdy person

novels in which all country people were mean-minded yahoos — Russell Lord

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